Scottish Clan Tartans Aren't Ancient. They Were Invented in 1842 by Two English Con Men.

You already know the story. Or at least the version everybody's been handed down. Clans. Sacred tartans. A warrior culture supposedly older than memory itself. That's the myth. The myth was a product. Somebody built it deliberately, and they built it to sell. The Highland tradition Scots and the global Scottish diaspora treat as ancient was actually constructed between 1760 and 1850 by a specific…